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Her daughters were also not allowed to have play dates, learn any instrument other than the piano or violin, appear in a school play, choose their own extra-curricular activities or fail to be the top student in any class except gym or drama.

Both Chua and her husband are graduates of Harvard Law school, and their daughter Sophie has also been subjected to intense media scrutiny after her mother published her book.

She wrote to the New York Post earlier this year defending her mother, saying the approach had forced her to become more independent.

She wrote: 'To me, it’s [life] not about achievement or self-gratification. It’s about knowing that you’ve pushed yourself, body and mind, to the limits of your own potential.

'You feel it when you encounter a life-changing idea, and when you do something on your own that you never thought you could. If I died tomorrow, I would die feeling I’ve lived my whole life at 110 per cent.